Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.